Ship-shaped graves have been identified at the site, which came to light during investigations of an earlier Stone Age ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near ...

According to the Norse sagas, Viking mariners sailed westward from ... In combat, he says, the battle axes could reach speeds of 110 miles an hour at the point of impact. Photograph by Robert ...

and in was Norse mythology. And for Kratos, gone were his loud boasts and flying blades, and in was a more stoic and downright Viking-style personality, and an axe that would fell gods.

Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

Grab your horned helmet, axe and shield ... but the Norse heritage of the city is still preserved in one of the UK's most popular tourist attractions, the Jorvik Viking Centre.

The Vikings were Norse people who came from an area called ... Viking warriors fought using long swords and axes. The first Viking raid recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was around AD787.

The events are recorded in "Sverris Saga," one of the "King's Sagas," or prose poems, written in Norway and Iceland between ...

Two other Norse crewmembers, Lagertha and Floki ... It’s decorated with swords, axes, and tribal flags, and a lone raven flies above the Viking Felice at all times, in tribute to the mighty Odin. The ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...

The Norse people met to discuss new laws andsolve ... Viking warriors fought using long swords and axes. The Vikings were pagans, not Christians like most people living in Britain at the time.